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'Before We Vanish' review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa spins silly, spooky alien-invasion thriller

Late into the Japanese science-fiction pastiche "Before We Vanish," an extraterrestrial visitor wanders into a Tokyo church where several children are singing "Jesus Loves Me." There's nothing especially scary about the scene as it plays out: The creature has taken possession of an earthly body and, for the most part, looks and sounds like an ordinary human male. But there is something unmistakably chilling about this sudden juxtaposition of the sweet, the sacred and the sinister.

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